New icons for SwiftKit Mobile
With the launch of the mobile platform, and it's steady pace, I've decided to start working on the UI if it. The first place I attacked was the icon of the program. I wanted to make it fit in with the rest of the android apps, bring soft and matte-like. I also didn't want to make it overcomplicated and cluttered.
The icons should be pushed with the next update, along with a few other features that we've added. The next area I'll focus on is the main screen, and making that area a bit more pretty. The current brown mess isn't going to be sticking around for long. 
SwiftKit Mobile for Android
Today we have released the initial version of SwiftKit Mobile onto the Android Marketplace. SwiftKit Mobile is a project that we have started to bring SwiftKit utilities and features to your phones for while you are on the go. Currently we only have an Android version but are looking into iPhone/iPod Touch solutions.
Version 1.0 at the moment features a highscores lookup. However with future updates we plan to expand on the content to include database lookups (prices, items, monsters, clans), Adventure Log, basic calculators, notifications and much more.
If you do have an Android device we encourage you to install it and let us know how it performs, positively or negatively.
SwiftKit Chrome
SwiftKit Chrome, a new and useful addon for the Google Chrome browser. With Google Chrome's rich Javascript engine I am hoping to create a highly useful partition to the RuneScape game screen. Full of powerful and slick tools that you would want to use whilst playing RuneScape. Right now its currently in early development, but in public BETA to allow me to get the UI working, whilst I work on adding all of the powerful utilities that will require more time than making the page look pretty!
What I want you, the user to do is test this on your own computer, you can find the link at https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kkedckjhgikobofgeochemomjgcggchd once you've downloaded and installed (its a matter of meer kbs). All you have to do then is navigate to the RuneScape page, and click 'Play now' and the addon will do the rest. You'll notice a partition on the page to your right, with the highscore lookup. Right now, at time of posting, highscores is the only tool complete, the next tab being Grand Exchange, and then the final one being other. After you've seen it played around with it, if you notice something a bit wrong with it, say some text overlaps on something, anything you deem to be wrong or makes the partition look bad. I want you to email me (zanith@bluelightdev.com) screenshots of this (rather than bothering trying to explain it, a screenshot will show me exactly what the problem with and also give me your resolution/dpi etc).
Now, everytime I make changes to that side partition, there wont be an updated version of the extension, because all the clever bits are done remotely. Today I've even added the dungeoneering skill to the highscore lookup. Now I am working on the grand exchange lookup utility with clever charts and much much more, so keep checking back for more dev blog posts.
If you're having issues with the extensions, or you want it disabled to allow a larger RuneScape screen, navigate your way to chrome://extensions/ and select disable. Don't forget to re-enable later, as problems may be fixed rather quickly!
Tools Behind Maintaining The SwiftKit Project
It's been awhile since the last Dev Blog post so I've decided to write up another. This time however it won't be about an upcoming update or software release. Instead we'll have a look at the tools behind maintaining the SwiftKit project. The two main tools that will be shown are the Control Panel and the new Database Editor.
Database Editor
This is a new tool that has been developed to allow SwiftKit staff members to access, modify, add and delete data within the SwiftKit00x.skd files. The SwiftKitData00x.skd files are used for the calculators, quest center, atlas, achievement diary center etc. The tool was written in .NET and connects to a MySQL database on the SwiftKit server. Currently the changes made are not live, in order for the changes to take effect the data needs to be exported, packed and then uploaded. The main benefit of the tool is that it allows other staff members to manage the data instead of just myself.
SwiftKit MS – Screenshot Viewer
It's been a little while since the last Dev Blog so I thought I should make a post about the Screenshot Viewer I've been working on. In SwiftKit RS the Screenshot Viewer is pretty ordinary to say the least so in SwiftKit MS we wanted to give it more purpose. The idea was to have something that's similar to Windows Explorer, but not as extensive. Here's what we've come up with so far.
You can also check out the new Screenshot Viewer in the latest SwiftKit MS update. For instructions on how to download SwiftKit MS see here.
